On 02/18/2016 03:16 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
As the "old" partition scheme is increasingly considered "obsolete",
for the new layout scheme, how does one not overwrite the entire file
system other than having two separate hard drives, a "system" one and
and "non-system" (e.g., /home ...) one (for which the "hard drives"
could be multiple drives in a RAID configuration, etc., but not "system")?
While this has nothing to do with what you originally posted, I'll
bite. In my case I have set up a separate logical volume for /home from
the one where / is mounted. Whether this LV is on the same volume group
as the LV for / is irrelevant; in my case they are on the same VG, and I
tell (told, in the case of one 'upgrade') the installer to use a
particular existing LV for /, a particular partition for /boot, another
LV for swap, and the last LV for /home. All are set to format *except*
the one for /home. It took a bit of time to get used to the EL7
installer's way of doing mount points, but now that I've used it a few
times I really prefer it to the old way for many (but not all) use cases.
But my question is 'why do you always seem to pick the hard way?' to do
things. (I already have a good idea why, actually, as it has to do with
a basic difference between 'Computer Science' and 'Information
Technology' (as defined by the ACM's 2008 Computing Curricula Standards)
and a basic difference between the CS mindset and the IT mindset.) Just
understand that most of the advice you're going to get here is squarely
in the IT (as defined by the ACM) mindset, including from me.